• avater@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    maybe they fall for the propaganda peddled by eastern media and their dictator friends.

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      7 months ago

      They never see any of that, nor do you. All news is filtered through the big western agencies, AP/Reuters/AFP, to ensure that only the approved narrative is reported.

      • SMillerNL@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        You really have a lot of faith in the organising capacity of all collective western governments when they can’t even agree on some pretty basic stuff.

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          7 months ago

          It’s not that corporate news in the western world has to be well organized to put out the same perspective. Rather, they operate under the same kinds of selective pressures and as such they develop similar biases.

          A good example is all the reporting on WMDs in Iraq that went unquestioned by much of the western press until well after it mattered. Unfortunately nothing has really changed since the invasion of Iraq.

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        7 months ago

        Go talk about Tiananmen Square in China and get back to us about countries and approved agencies.

        And consider, any event or topic you whatabout for the West will be a far lower severity since we can actually talk about it with repercussion, and do research on it